A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire

A county-wide dialect glossary assembles words and phrases recorded in Wiltshire speech from field collection and earlier lexical sources. Entries supply definitions, variant spellings, etymological notes, and examples of folk usage, with many terms noted for the first time. Material includes agricultural terminology, obsolete or regionally shaded English, and purely local vocabulary, and the work adds illustrative short stories, a brief discussion of pronunciation, and several appendices. Bibliographic commentary links items to previous glossaries and neighbouring counties, while editors observe the dialects' gradual retreat and encourage continued recording.